Variable Help

Hey Guys, I am kinda new to action script so bear with me if this is a bit of a noob question.

I have a series of text fields within buttons (movie clips). To change the text of these fields you would call C1_btn.C1_Name.text = "some string" (changing 1 to 2, 3, 4, etc. for all the fields totaling 10)

var myString:String;
var i:int;
for(i=1; i<10; i++) {
myString = "C" + i + "_btn.C" + i + "_Name.text"; //This will look like this "C1_btn.C1_Name.text".
myString = "Chapter" + i; // Change the text of the field in the button...

// C1_btn.C1_Name.text = "chapter 1"; // tested and works.
}

How would i do this so that the second call to myString would be taken literally as C1_btn.C1_Name.text because that is what I actually want to change.

Hope this makes sense and someone has a clean solution. Thanks in advance.

P

Still hoping someone can help me out...

Maybe this will help explain my problem better and what I am hoping to achieve....

for (var i:int=1; i<11; i++){
C1_btn.C1_Name.text = playlist[i];
C1_btn.C1_Desc.text = desclist[i];
}

In the example above, how do I get the number 1 (both spots) to increment with i... I am certain there must be a way to do this but for the life of me i just cant figure it out.

Effectively what Id like is something that would work like this...

Ci_btn.Ci_Name.text = playlist[i]

Where i gets updated with each for loop.

Please someone help me....

ok, making a little progress here....

this["C" + i + "_btn.C" + i + "_Name.text"] = playlist[i];

seems to no longer error out but it does not populate the text field as expected.

PHP Code:

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var path:String;
var i:int;
for (i=0; i<5; i++) {
    path = "c" + (i+1) + "_btn";
    this[path].c_name.text = "Chapter" + (i+1);
} 


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arkitx

Nice, i like it. Ill try it when i get home tonight. Thanks for the reply. This little issue has plagued me for a bit. If this works, ill be able to wipe out about 30 if then else statements.